Rolling-screen guide



Aug. 21, 1923. 1,465.8()2

J. D. BITONDI ROLLING SCREEN GUIDE Filed Jan. l0 1918 J; o -2b Mer 729' 2 M n 1 ll Patented Aug. 2l, 1923. l i p Y: Y *i Y I uni-TED stares rie'rsn'iorrics;

Application filed January 10, 1918. Serial No. 211,217.

To all whom t'may concern: As the screen is unreeled from the roller, Be it known that I, JOHN D. BiroNDi, a its side vedges traverse the channels of the subject of the King of Italy, residing at U-shalped guides 19 which are provided with Hartford` in the county of Hartford and the lateral longitudinal flanges 20 and y21 of 5 State of Connecticut, have invented new and which the latter is provided with holes for 45 useful Improvements in Rolling-Screeii the reception of fastening devices such as Guides, of which the following is a speciscrews 22 so that the guide may besecured fication. to the outer bead ofthe window frame as The object lof the invention is to provide clearly shown in Figure 2 of the drawings, a simple device of the character mentioned the longitudinally extending lateral fla-nge 50 having an attaching flange for securenient 20 serving as a reinforcement for the free to the bead of a window frame and an addiedge of the adjacent portion of the guide to tional flange acting as a reinforcement to prevent distortion cf the latter. prevent distortion of the free edge of the rlhe flanges 2()- and 9,1 extend in oppositeguide. directions from the free edges of the U- V55 With this object in view the invention shaped element or channel member of the consists in a construction and combination guide and are disposed in a common plane of parts of which a preferred embodiment is at substantially right angles to the legs of :shown in the accompanying drawings, the U-shaped or channel member with which wherein they connect. y Y Y 60 Figure l is a perspective view of a window The invention having been described what p frame on which the invention is applied. is claimed as new and useful is:

Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional view A guide for a rolling screen consisting of of the structure of Figure 1. l a U-shaped member for vextension through'- Figure 3 is a transverse horizontal sec! out the full length ofl a window frame and 65' tional view through one end of the housing. outwardly 'extending flanges integrally con- Figure l is a detail perspective view showiiected with the respective legs of said U- ing a portion of the guide constituting the shaped member at the outer edge thereof, -invention. each flange disposed in aV single plane at The invention is designed particularly for substantially right angles to-tlie respective 70 use in connection with rolling screens and leg and extending the `full length of said similar devices and is illustrated in connecmember, one of said flanges being provided tion with a screen provided with a housing with spaced holes through which screws may 8 in which is mounted the usual screen actube passed to attach the guide to the outside ated rollercarried in brackets 5, the screen bead of the window frame-and the other 75 8 being secured to the roller 7 for reeling on flange acting as a reinforcement to prevent Vand off the latter and being equipped with distortion of the free edge of the guide. a stretcher bar ,12 at the lower end to mainyIn testimony whereof l affix my signature. tain the free efd of the screen in spanning I n 4oy relation with the window frame 18. A JOHN \D. BITONDL 

